The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-17
LIVERPOOL.
A Salt Laker Doing the City on the
Mersey.

LIVERPOOL, Eng, June 81, 1887.
To the Editor of THE HERALD.
The Nevada reached this town on
June 18th, the next day after leaving
Queenstown, and here the party has
and gone to the four winds of
heaven, some going to one place and
some to another, making it exceedingly
doubtful if we shall see each other again
for some time. On Monday, June, Goth,
the jubilee began, thefestiyities continu-
ing during the whole week; the entire
country being full of jubilee, the people
talking of nothing but jubilee, in fact it
is time Of jubilation, this town, like
al others in England, being deliberately
decorated with flags, banners, ever
greens, and all kinds of decoration, in
every conceivable pattern and device.
This is apparently cosmopolitan town,
there being people here of every nation,
the consequences being that the flags and
banners exhibited are not entirely Brit
ish; flags OF other nations being inter
spersed. The American flag seems
to be the taYor1te after the English.
Tuesday was the anniversary of the
Queens accession to the thrspe, and on
that day all business was Suspended.
and professions were the order of the
day. The one here was very elaborate
affair. First came mounted police to
clear the way, then came the volunteers,
each regiment preceded by brass band,
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ious industries of the place, carving
the implements, or small articles embIe.
matte or their manufactures; bands of
music, and banners being very frequent
in their ranks. Then came the secret
societies; the procession being termin-
ated by the Orangemen. The march
was rapid one, yet the length of the
procession was so great that it was an
hour and fifteen minutes passing given
point. at night the town was illumin-
ated, and fireworks were let off in great
protus!on. The streets were crowded
with people, making walking very diff
cult, but not at all dangerous; the peo-
pie all seemed to take the crowding
good humoredly, laughing and making
fun of it. and the day l believe passed
off without an accident. During the
rest of the week the rejoicing was not so
great, each day doing its best in taper
Ing it OF, and now the people are back
to their normal condition. The celebra-
ton of the Queens jubilee elsewhere in
the country seems to have been carried
out on pretty much the same plan as
here, the papers all giving accounts of
professions, Examinations, etc., taking
place in the different towns, that in
London, of course, being the most elab-
crate. The people from the country
villages came in throngs to this place to
assist in the celebration, and as a jolli-
icaUion, and holiday time it was a
grand success.
Liverpool is said to be the second
place in point of population in England,
and it certainly is very populous; its
streets are mostly narrow, and the
houses are closely built, there is not
any waste room; the town seems to
have been laid out without any design,
as the streets come into each other at
every conceivable angle, and are as
crooked as cattle paths. The public
buildings are among the best l have
ever seen, they are substantially built,
and being entirely of stone, seem to be
designed to last forever. The town is
well endowed, there being a public
library, museum, and gallery of pic
lures, all free, and the property of the
corporation, they having been presented
at various times and by different people
to the town; they are kept in buildings
designed for that purpose in the vicinity
of st. Georges Hall, on William Brown
Street, so-called to perpetuate the name
of the principal donor. In front of st.
Georges Hall are some exceedingly fine
monuments, two of them being colossal
equestrian statues of the Queen and
Prince Albert, one is a statue OF the
Duke of Wellington, on the top OF a
very high column. In the centre of the
square at the Exchange building is the
Nelson monument. Quite large pro-
portion of the business houses are built
of stone, and are very fine and costly
structures. The atmosphere seems to
be constantly full of smoke, and this
seems to have deposited a coating of
SCOT on all the buildings. the bricks and
stones of all the structures looking dirty
and smoky from 1t.
The towf boasts that it has over 6O0,-
900 inhabitants, and it certainly has an
immense number, and they are greatly
mixed up in nationality. OF course, in
such a town there is also great deal of
poverty, sin and wretchedness. A large
number of children are on the streets,
gaining precarious living by the sale
of matches and other small articles;
boot-bIacks abound, and street stands
and peddlers are on every corner. The
draymen have as fine and large horses
as can be found anywhere, and they
haul on their drays immense loads; one
of their horses hauling a weight which
we would consider sufficient load for